Sports Fans: You’ll Love PlayUp!

Here’s what I love about the 21st century – we have the cool stuff we all saw on Star Trek in our earlier days – we’ve got the face to face video technology, we’ve got Bones’ cool body scanner, we’ve even got the Star Trek communicator (actually, we one-upped that with our Smart Phones). Now we even have live sports with virtual hang-outs right on our phones!

PlayUp launched in October and enables sports fans to follow their choice of more than 20,000 live games while simultaneously discussing the action with fellow fans on their mobile devices. Very cool.

In 2011, PlayUp raised $50 million to build out its global vision for a mobile-based social network dedicated to live sports. The resulting PlayUp social network is the first real-time, mass-market social gaming platform enabling users globally to interact via their mobile devices during live games.

The free app includes real-time scoring and stats, along with the option to create private rooms to discuss the action with friends or join public rooms to interact with fans from around the world. Another cool feature is that you’ll get the play by play and pitch by pitch for every NFL, college football and basketball, NHL, NBA, MLB, and MLS game, as well as a variety of international leagues from around the globe.

I had the opportunity to interview Dennis Lee, president of the US division of PlayUp, and his enthusiasm for sports is contagious. (We even may have a dinner bet on the next 49’s vs. Hawks game.) Dennis describes PlayUp as more than a “cool app;” to Dennis, PlayUp is a necessity if you are sports fan – and after checking it out, I tend to agree.

What I especially like is that PlayUp is a perfect tool for our troops to banter back and forth in the private rooms while enjoying the game in different parts of the world.

Dennis shared, “We have received consistent praise from troops abroad about how much they enjoy using PlayUp in their downtime.” No mystery behind the “why” on this statement.

If you are a sports fan, you need to download this app. And do it before the Big Game. Yes, I know. This seems like a pretty heavy-handed endorsement – and in full disclosure, I have received absolutely nothing for it – so this is a truly “real” endorsement.